David Canary
Known For
Acting
Born
1938-08-25 in Elwood, Indiana, USA
Died
2015-11-16
Biography
David Hoyt Canary (August 25, 1938 – November 16, 2015) was an American actor. Canary is best known for his roles as ranch foreman "Candy" Canaday in the Bonanza beginning in its ninth season, and as Adam Chandler in the television soap opera All My Children, for which he received 16 Daytime Emmy Award nominations and won five times. In his youth, Canary was a star football player and was drafted as a lineman in the inaugural 1960 AFL draft by the Denver Broncos. Instead, he opted to pursue acting. Early roles included Russ Gehring in the primetime soap opera Peyton Place and Lamar Dean in the 1967 Western film Hombre. Canary's most notable stage performance was on Broadway in the original production of Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotel, starring Geraldine Page. A baritone, he also appeared in musical stage roles in shows such as Kismet, Man Of La Mancha, The Fantasticks, Sweeney Todd and Carousel, along with dramatic performances in The Seagull, Macbeth, and Clarence Darrow.
Most Known For
Law & Order
as Jeremy Orenstein
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as White Haired Man at Park
Bonanza
as Candy Canaday
Hawaii Five-O
as George
Touched by an Angel
as Carter Winslow
The F.B.I.
as Eugene Bradshaw
Gunsmoke
as George McClaney
All My Children
as Adam Chandler
The Rookies
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Alias Smith and Jones
Police Story
Hombre
as Lamar Dean
Cimarron Strip
as Tal St. James
Another World
as Steve Frame
Sharks' Treasure
as Larry
S.W.A.T.
Remember WENN
as Luke Langly
One Life to Live
